Hello,
there are some added question, would you please help to confirm that?
1. The retimer does not terminate the FEC even the CDR disabled?
2. How much will the output jitter increase when the CDR is disabled?
3. Could you please to help confirming the serdes rate and design as the attachment can be supported? For the connection with switch, data should be send to two switch at same time and select one of them to receive.